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PREPARATION
PARTNERS
PERFORMANCE
PURPOSE
1. Live in the boundary2. Plan for opportunities
3. Engage a brain trust4. Build powerful teams
6. Create more with less5. Work with zealous tenacity
8. Serve a broader purpose7. Give distinguishing service
Business opportunities are revealed on the edge of the organization where customers and products meet, not in the center of the bureaucracy.
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PREPARATION
When you live in the boundary of the organization you develop:
• Excellent knowledge of the industry• Brilliant understanding of competitors• Superior awareness of products/services• Exceptional familiarity with customers• Superb responsiveness to customers’ needs
It is very difficult to create great products in an area in which you don’t personally participate. Our work is our life and we live our work. This in itself is what ignites and makes every idea and product a reality.
Carl Hermansen, Crank Brothers
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A true business opportunity exists when you have the following conditions:
1. A need that is not being met or a better way to meet an existing need
2. A credible position in the industry3. Resources to launch the venture4. Customers who want to buy the product or
service RIGHT NOW!
PREPARATION
Successful entrepreneurs continue to explore opportunities to diversify their revenue by:
• Finding new customers for their existing products
• Finding new products for their customer base
• Utilizing their resources to develop new products for new markets
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Mentors help jump start a newventure. The best mentors:
• Have business experience• Know you fairly well• Have passion for your idea• Have numerous contacts
PARTNERS
I do a lot of networking and get advice from mentors and other entrepreneurs. I think that is a key if you want to be successful. I’ll just call up or email anyone, and a lot of people are willing to talk and share their experiences. It is kind of human nature to want to educate other people. You have to be open to contacting people out of the blue and not be afraid of that. Gauri Nanda, Nanda Home
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Successful entrepreneurs buildstrong teams at various levels:
• A board of advisors that knows the industry well
• Executives with critical skills and ownership
• Partnerships with vendors and suppliers
PARTNERS
Geese flying in formation can travel 71 percent further than a goose flying alone. They take turns leading and resting to maintain strength.
A cyclist riding alone can never achieve the same level of success as a team working together. Riding in a draft line increases efficiency by 30 percent.
“One key to success is having a very small and overqualified team. We all know this, but forget that the best people could also go and be CEOs at their own companies. In a “war for talent” you have to ask yourself: What wouldn’tyou do to bring the right people onto your team and keep them in the game?”
Chris MichelFounder of
Military.Comand
Affinity Labs
• Passion for products and services, and/or • Passion to be successful and independent• Tenacious and enduring work ethic• Focus on ways to make things work, not
reasons why they won’t work • Taking responsibility for outcomes
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Malcolm GladwellAuthor of Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers
Ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert – at anything.
When the Beatles returned from Hamburg they had played live 1,200 times, and sounded like no one else. It was the making of them.
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• Going in Lean
• Staying Lean
• Keeping costs below industry standards
PERFORMANCE
Two Companies
Scale Eight• 1999 – 2003 (4 years)• $60 million in funding• Bought nice furniture, purchased
elaborate signage, launched expensive marketing campaigns,
• Grew to 200 employees• Offices in San Francisco, New
York, Virginia, London, Tokyo• Sold patents to Intel and closed
business
Mozy• 2005 – 2007 (2 years) • $1.9 million in finding • One office in Alpine, Utah• Small staff of team members• Sound business model• Focused on selling and grew
to 300,000 customers • Sold to EMC in 2007 for $76
million
Too much funding makes you stupid. If you have an enormous amount of funding you tend to spend it. . . After your business machine starts working, you can step on the gas. But if you are not even sure your car runs, it’s not a good idea to get on the freeway.
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• Exceeding customer expectations
• Creating systems to maintain superb service with every customer
PURPOSE
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• The business supports the community• The community supports the business
Our bottom line is the utilization of profits to enrich the human soul and alleviate human suffering. We always try to combine a humanitarian project that will genuinely help the people with our business interests. It might be assisting the flood victims in Thailand or the homeless in Armenia, or helping to relieve starvation in Russia, India and Ukraine. Until we move beyond the profit level and help find cures for cancer, provide for the homeless, and feed the poor, we haven’t achieved our corporate objectives.
Jon Huntsman